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Peace activist Cindy Sheehan urged a standing-room-only crowd at the Church of the Crossroads last night to unite to stop the war in Iraq, impeach President Bush and "see justice" for those killed since the war started in 2003.
"If you don’t want the war machine to invade your island, don’t let it happen," said Sheehan, whose 24-year-old son died in Iraq and who gained international attention for staging an anti-war demonstration outside Bush’s ranch in Texas.
"Anybody can do what I do. (…)

Taken from: www.valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com
Marching Forward
Festering in our midst like a toxic cloud of pollution the army of good Americans exists, living and working among us, inhabiting our neighborhoods and cities, co-existing peacefully with us, though perceiving an utterly different conception of reality than the rest of us. Their numbers, though dwindling more every day with the almost weekly revelations of corporatist lies built upon corporatist lies and government (…)

Michael P. Wright — Norman, Okahoma, USA mpwright9@aol.com On December 29, 2005, I reported here that Michael Berg, father of Nick, had changed his story to account for the fact that his son’s University of Oklahoma email password was found in the possession of Al Qaeda member Zacarias Moussaoui when his laptop was searched on 9/11/01. Both Nick Berg and Moussaoui had been in Norman, home of OU, during 2001. A review is necessary. The elder Berg’s way of accounting for this, in a (…)

By wayne madsen
January 2, 2006 — Intelligence and military sources in the United States and abroad are reporting on various factors that indicate a U.S. military hit on Iranian nuclear and military installations, that may involve tactical nuclear weapons, is in the final stages of preparation.
Likely targets for saturation bombing are the Bushehr nuclear power plant (where Russian and other foreign national technicians are present), a uranium mining site in Saghand near the city of (…)

by Jason Leopold
The special prosecutor investigating the outing of CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson is trying to determine whether Deputy White House chief of staff Karl Rove lied to the FBI when he was first interviewed by agents about his role in the case in October 2003, attorneys close to the case said.
News reports in recent weeks have suggested that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has narrowed his criminal inquiry into whether Rove purposely failed to tell the grand jury (…)

by Monica Benderman
Christmas comes but once a year. Why?
Maybe it is a reminder.
Churches are full on Christmas Eve. So many pay homage - listening to the story of Christmas. Year after year, children memorize the Christmas story, learn to point in the direction of the Star of Bethlehem, and surround a cradle full of hay to sing “Away in a Manger,” with hands folded sweetly to their chins.
The children grow and remember Christmas past as they watch their own child’s hands wrapped (…)

by Wayne Besen Giving new meaning to a pyramid scheme, a recent New York Times article discussed how the pharmaceutical industry hires college cheerleaders as its drug representatives. "They don’t ask what the major is," T. Lynn Williamson, a cheering advisor for University of Kentucky, said of the drug companies who turn to the school to find pompom pill pushers. Of course, the pharmaceutical giants would have us believe it’s coincidental that their reps look like runway models. (…)

By LARRY McSHANE
NEW YORK - The three-day walkout by city transit workers, while a hassle for millions of New Yorkers, was a boost for unions from coast to coast as they face negotiations where management calls for health care and pension givebacks are almost inevitable, labor experts say.
“This was a very important stand for those workers to have made,” said Ron Blackwell, chief economist for the AFL-CIO. “It will resonate nationally.”
ADVERTISEMENT The 33,000 members of Transport (…)

By Harold Meyerson
The conventional wisdom is still unpersuaded that the Republican Party is about to mount a full-force attack on American’s undocumented immigrants — of whom, by some counts, there are 11 million. After all, the Republicans are the party of employers — large (agribusiness), medium (construction companies), and small (restaurateurs) — who have long depended on immigrants for cheap labor. The cheap labor sectors of American capitalism are a huge source of donations for the (…)

by Mary MacElveen There are times where the good news coming from Venezuela is overshadowed by those closely monitoring what weapons have been purchased by the Chavez administration, or how he will interact with Bolivia’s president-elect Evo Morales.
In my opinion both are treated by those who oppose President Chavez as if the sky were falling in.
The opposition, both in America and in Venezuela, should sit down and take a deep breath.
Some are alarmed at President Chavez’ (…)